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Muriel Leung is the author of Bone Confetti (Noemi Press 2016). Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, Ghost Proposal, Jellyfish Magazine, inter|rupture, and others. She is a recipient of a Kundiman fellowship and is a regular contributor to The Blood-Jet Writing Hour poetry podcast. She is also a Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Southern California. She tweets (@murmurshewrote).
Born in Iloilo City, Philippines, Angela Ina Penaredondo is a Pilipinx/Pin@y poet and artist. Angela is the author of the chapbook, Maroon (Jamii Publications) and her book, All Things Lose Thousands of Times was the winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Drunken Boat, AAWW's The Margins, Four Way Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. Angela resides in Southern California, drifting between deserts, beaches, lowly cities and socially engineered suburbs.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is a poet, essayist, and artist born in the borderlands in McAllen, Texas. Her poems have appeared in PBS Newshour, Waxwing, Caketrain, DIAGRAM, DREGINALD, The Feminist Wire, The Western Humanities Review, The Poetry Foundation Harriet Blog, and elsewhere. Most recently, she has served as an editor for the Bettering American Poetry project. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and her book, BEAST MERIDIAN, was a finalist at Nightboat, FuturePoem, Saturnalia, and Willow Books, and is forthcoming from Noemi Press in early 2017. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, and her hometown is Houston, Texas.
This event is sponsored by Kundiman (special shoutout to our SoCal Co-Chairs, Kenji Liu and Jean Ho!)
Doors open @ 2pm.
Poetic Research Bureau
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According to the report Healthy People 20101, health literacy is the "degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions." The National Network of Libraries of Medicine explains that this "includes the ability to understand instructions on prescription drug bottles, appointment slips, medical education brochures, doctor's directions and consent forms, and the ability to negotiate complex health care systems." Research has demonstrated that the lower an individual's health literacy level, the higher the utilization rate of hospitalizations and emergency health services.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a "National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy," which seeks "to engage organizations, professionals, policymakers, communities, individuals, and families in a linked, multisector effort to improve health literacy."
The Eccles Health Sciences Library and the Health Literacy Interest Group are offering two webinars on this topic this spring, one on health literacy itself, and the second on the National Action Plan. Here are the details:
Health Literacy in the Real World: Awareness, Ideas, Solutions
- When: March 17, 2011
- Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
- Where: HSEB 4100 B & C
- Info: Poor health literacy is a major issue in the United States. We see examples of how it affects patients, providers, and the healthcare system every day. This session will look at some of the problems created by poor health literacy, discuss programs and ideas to help improve it on both the patient and provider side, and review some solutions. The upcoming IHA Health Literacy Conference will be reviewed, as well as a discussion of the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy.
National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy
- When: May 4, 2011
- Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
- Where: HSEB 4100 B & C
- Info: The Institute for Healthcare Advancement is hosting its 10th Annual Health Literacy Conference: "Health Literacy = Effective Communication: Translating Ideas Into Practice" May 4-6, 2011 in Irvine, California. You can attend a pre-conference session "virtually" to discuss the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy. Join in the social media discussion and hear how other organizations around the country are using the National Action Plan, and join the discussion with information about what you're doing or suggestions for others.
Both webinars are FREE, and faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend.
¹U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2000. Healthy People 2010. 2nd ed. With Understanding and Improving Health and Objectives for Improving Health. 2 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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With three months to go before facing the voters, the Liberal government has delivered what might be called a second marriage budget, an act Oscar Wilde called the triumph of hope over experience.
The experience is that to maintain public services at the current level, spending has to be increased to at least cover general inflation and the growth in population. In health care, the largest piece of the provincial budget, the increases have been higher to meet rising costs and the demands placed on the system by an aging population.
The hope expressed in the three-year plan presented as a long-promised balanced budget is that the government will be able to achieve this year what it has failed to do in the past — hold spending to less than half of the historical average and less than half of what would nominally be needed simply to stand pat.
This is not an election budget in the traditional sense. It is not larded with obvious goodies, although there are a few. It is an election budget nonetheless and what it primarily illustrates is the need to change the fixed date from the spring to the fall so budgeting in an election year will be less about what can be promised and more about what is delivered.
This year, the province hired an outside expert to validate the revenue assumptions in the budget. Given the improvements that have been made in the transparency of budgeting since B.C.'s auditor general found an excess of optimism in the 1996 pre-election budget, it's not surprising that Tim O'Neill, the former chief economist for the Bank of Montreal, essentially gave the assumptions a clean bill of health.
Sadly, the spending side of the budget unveiled by Finance Minister Mike de Jong is less credible. As promised, the numbers reflect the promise of a balanced budget. A budget is just a plan, however.
For it to be really useful, the plan has to be implemented. And to be implemented, it has to be achievable.
Many of the spending estimates included in this budget will be difficult to achieve. The overall spending target is less than the rate of inflation. It barely covers the estimated population growth. To maintain that rate over three years implies a continued agenda of program cuts.
Achieving the budget targets will depend on maintaining the freeze on wages for public servants that has been in place for three years for another three. It also means persuading doctors to agree to a no-increase contract, which based on experience, is highly unlikely.
As well, the decision to highlight asset sales to generate the revenue needed to achieve the slim balance undermines its value. Living within our means shouldn't include selling off property to pay for current operations.
The basic credibility problem with de Jong's budget is that it is being launched into the teeth of an election campaign. It is a spending plan on which voters are being asked to pass judgment without the benefit of the time needed to assess whether it is based on substance.
If the election date were switched from the spring to the fall, the change would reduce the temptation to bring in a budget based on promises that may be difficult to keep. A fall date will allow us to know whether the previous year's budget has been achieved through the Public Accounts. The first quarterly report for the current fiscal year could also be available.
Elections should be about the choices made by governments that are reflected in budgets. But British Columbians should be able to have the confidence that budgets are fundamentally realistic plans for governing and not merely a collection of promises that may not survive election day.


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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
We took a 10 day vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii from May 12-21, 2010. I had plotted out a bunch of restaurants to visit while we were there based on reviews on Urbanspoon and recommendations in the "Big Island Revealed" book. For the most part, we had some great local food while we were there.
Instead of making separate posts for all of the restaurants, I'm going to just break it into a few posts about our trip.
Our flight left Tampa at 8am and we changed planes in Dallas. We grabbed a quick bite in the Dallas airport at Dickey's BBQ.
For airport food, it wasn't bad at all. I got a roast pork sandwich and Loren got the brisket. The mac & cheese was pretty dry, but I didn't really expect much from it. Total bill was $19. Next stop, Hawaii.
Ok, so it was 7 hours to Honolulu, then an hour in the airport, then an hour connector flight to Hilo. We arrived around 5pm Hawaii time, which to us, was 11pm Tampa time. But we were still hungry so headed over to Ken's House of Pancakes for dinner.
We'd read about Ken's before our trip and it lived up to its reputation. Lots of good food, enormous menu, and reasonable prices. Plus it's open 24/7 which is why we ended up eating there twice during our trip. Their parking lot isn't big enough for the steady flow of customers going through there.
On our first night, I ordered some potato soup to start off.
It was thick and rich and quite filling. Then we both ordered Loco Mocos because that's what you do when you go to the Big Island.
Mine was really good. Kulua pork over rice with gravy and two eggs over easy. I can understand why people order these. It's a hearty meal and the pork was very tasty. Both eggs and rice were cooked well too.
Loren got the Keiki moco which had a hamburger patty, rice, gravy & he ordered it with scrambled eggs.
He wasn't as impressed with his. The hamburger patty was nothing to write home about. The pork in mine is what really made it good.
And I just couldn't pass up dessert. I said it was because I was on vacation, but anyone who reads this blog knows I rarely pass up dessert.
Unfortunately, the chocolate pie had nuts on it which I don't like. But the chocolate, crust, whipped cream and ice cream were all very good. For $23, we were completely stuffed.
We went back to Ken's two days later after our Lava Ocean Adventures boat tour. If you go to the Big Island, definitely take this boat tour. It was absolutely amazing. We were about 20-30 feet away from the active lava flow. It's a 35 minute boat ride out & back and then they spend 45 minutes at the lava just going back & forth across the 1/4 mile field. We actually took the sunset tour on day 3 of our vacation and we were so amazed that we took a sunrise tour on day 10 before we headed back to Tampa. Here's one of about 400 photos I took.
After the lava tour, we went back to Ken's and had dinner. Loren got a bacon cheeseburger and I ordered the honey chicken.
Both were pretty good. The chicken really didn't taste like it had much honey on it though. They do a lot of business at Ken's and the food is pretty consistent for a diner. Another $23 meal and we were stuffed.
For Day 2 of our trip, we started the morning with a Blue Hawaiian helicopter tour around Hilo. It was ok, but I wouldn't do it again. Seeing Hilo from above was a nice perspective, but overall, I don't think it was worth the money. We saw some waterfalls, the volcano crater, and a little of the active lava flow. The Lava Ocean Adventures boat tour was way better for the money.
After the helicopter tour, we checked out some of the local beach parks, then had lunch at the Puka Puka Kitchen.
This was a cute little restaurant with only 4 tables and a little counter by the window. We both ordered off of their specialis menu. I got the Chicken Katsu Don Burger with fries and Loren got the Japanese Style Chicken Katsu Curry.
This sandwich was so tasty. The chicken was fried perfectly and had a sweet sauce on it. I was one happy camper. And the fresh cut fries were a nice change.
Loren enjoyed the curry as well. It was the same chicken that was on my sandwich but in a spicy curry sauce with veggies. For $16, this was one of the most inexpensive, tastier meals we had on the island.
We spent the afternoon at the Volcano Park then headed over the 'Imiloa Planetarium for the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe" show. We ate dinner at the Sky Garden Restaurant at the Planetarium. They had a nice buffet with a lot of different choices including shrimp, noodles, rice, salad bar, teriyaki chicken, veggies, as well as some yummy desserts including a lilikoi dessert that I just loved. Lilikoi is passion fruit and for the rest of the trip anytime I saw anything on the menu with lilikoi in it, I had to have some.
Day 3, we actually ate breakfast at the Bed and Breakfast we were staying at, The Inn at Kulaniapia Falls. Beautiful B&B with a waterfall on the property and a great view of Hilo Bay. Because of the time difference, we were up at the crack of dawn most mornings and wanted to get out and about before they started serving breakfast from 8-9am. The breakfasts we did eat there were good; eggs cooked to order, Belgium waffles, fresh fruit, and local breads.
We spent the morning at the Hawaii Botanical Gardens then ate lunch at Reuben's Mexican Restaurant. Started out with some chips and really spicy salsa.
Loren ordered the Ono Fish Tacos.
He liked them. Lots of veggies and the fish was cooked well. I ordered the chicken flautas and was quite shocked when the plate came out.
There was enough food on the plate for two people, maybe three. The flautas were huge, plus it came with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, and cheese. It had a lot of good flavors going on. I'd definitely order this again, but I'd have to split it with someone.
And just because I can't resist, I ordered the chocolate lava cake even though I was so full from lunch.
It had a good chocolate flavor, but the problem with most lava cakes is that they get cooked too long so the inside isn't liquid as it should be. That was the case with this one. It was solid all the way through.
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It is a fine political art, seeming to take a position without really doing so. But after Vice President Joe Biden came out in support of gay marriage on a Sunday talk show appearance, the Obama team has taken the opportunity to attack Mitt Romney—as the president himself stays tight-lipped.
I have no doubt that Barack Obama would come out for gay marriage tomorrow if he thought he could get away with it. For the president to say he's "evolving" is his wink-wink way of assuring his supporters that he privately agrees with them but has to keep his lip zipped until after he's safely reelected.
Joe Biden has now taken half a step further, hiding behind the fact that he is merely vice president of the United States.
On Sunday's Meet the Press, Biden uttered the words without apparent qualification.
"I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties," he told David Gregory."And frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that."
In a conference call with reporters Monday, senior adviser David Axelrod tried to brush off Biden's remarks on Meet the Press, saying they were "entirely consistent" with the president's position that gay couples "are entitled to the very same rights and very same liberties" as heterosexual couples. Axelrod even seemed to go a step further, saying that "when people are married, we ought to recognize those marriages."
There is absolutely no question that Biden's response was cleared by the White House. Vice presidents are not allowed to freelance on talk shows, especially on such a sensitive issue. So Obama was sending out Biden to further mollify the gay community without having to actually take a stand himself.
But the "evolving" president isn't proposing to do anything for gay couples other than having administration officials offer rhetorical support—a politically safe way of signaling that Obama is sympathetic to this important Democratic constituency. And what a coincidence: Education Secretary Arne Duncan endorsed gay marriage on Morning Joe, one day after Biden's appearance. Orchestrated? Could be.
But the lack of an official policy switch didn't stop the campaign from going after Mitt Romney on the issue. "There couldn't be a starker contrast," Axelrod said, slamming what he called Romney's "backwards-looking" approach. Ax noted that Romney "believes we need a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage," and said the former governor has "funded efforts to roll back marriage laws in California," where the issue is tied up in the courts.
In the last year, New York and Maryland have joined what are now a half-dozen states that have adopted gay marriage. We have come a long way from 2004, when George Bush ran for reelection by pushing a constitutional amendment to ban such marriages (and then quickly dropped the issue). Dick Cheney, who has a gay daughter, had signaled his independence on the matter, but the only question was how hard-line the Bush administration would be against same-sex marriage.
As the culture has shifted—faster than almost anyone would have imagined possible—most national Republicans have abandoned marriage as a wedge issue. You don't see Mitt Romney bringing it up. The reality of gay and lesbian couples getting hitched in numerous states has proven less threatening than the anticipatory rhetoric.
But polls, including a Pew survey last November, show the public is pretty evenly divided on the issue. With the Catholic Church taking a firm stand against gay marriage, some of the opposition is rooted in religious views. And many states are a long way from blessing such unions. North Carolina votes Tuesday on an amendment to ban gay marriage. (Bill Clinton, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, has made robo-calls opposing it.)
In such a climate, the president would be asking for a headache—and possibly reignite the culture wars—if he openly embraced gay marriage. So he had Joe Biden do it on Sunday morning television instead, hoping to reap the benefits without the political pain.
Romney's camp, meanwhile, did not respond to a request for comment.
On the call, Axelrod and Jim Messina also portrayed Romney as a relentlessly negative campaigner, saying nearly 90 percent of his advertising and that of the pro-Romney super PACs have been negative. Axelrod claimed that by next week, Obama will have spent more on positive ads than Romney has spent on his entire campaign.
Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg responded with a generic statement: "President Obama would like for voters to believe he hasn't been president for the last three years. Americans are disappointed in President Obama's liberal policies that haven't made their lives any better ... Mitt Romney will get our country back on track and stop the middle-class squeeze of the Obama economy."
Something tells me Romney isn't anxious to engage on the marriage issue.


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When Good People Do Bad Things
Is it possible for a good person to turn evil? Do you think you have an inner demon, or do you think that you could ever be swayed by bad influences, people or systems? Could you or someone you know ever rob a bank, steal from a neighbor or torture another human being? You'd be surprised at some of the good people who have found themselves doing truly evil things! Could this happen to you?
Dr. Phil and Dr. Zimbardo examine what makes a good person do bad things.
Dr. Philip Zimbardo puts the Dr. Phil studio audience to the test. Would they blindly follow directions from someone just because he looked like an authority figure? See what happened when an actor directs them to do some pretty strange things! Plus, how would you react if you were asked to guard a hoodlum with a taser and told to use the weapon if he tries to flee?
Learn more about Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiments, as mentioned on the show. Would participants deliver shocks " and therefore, pain " to another human being if told to do so by someone in power?
Such a result was totally unexpected by psychologists, as well as the general public.
The horrific abuses discovered in 2004 at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq mimic the results from Dr. Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment in the 1970s. See the surprising parallel that demonstrates just how easily a good person can be drawn to the dark side.
"It's really a fine line between good and evil."
Alex was an Army ranger who says he was just obeying routine orders when he ended up in prison for bank robbery. Find out what happened and how Dr. Zimbardo saved Alex from a 30-year prison sentence. Are you susceptible to manipulation by an authority figure?
"I saw how scared she was, and right then I said, 'Something is wrong here.'"


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On Tuesday, Microsoft announced new versions of Windows Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for Windows 7 and Windows 8, which introduced several new features, some of which are explicitly designed to take advantage of new Windows 8-specific functionality. The announcement on the Windows Experience blog skimmed through some of the more featured improvements, but LiveSide spotted a comprehensive list posted on Microsoft Answers that offers a more complete look at what's new.
Photo Gallery has a rather modest list of improvements:
- AutoCollage
- Vimeo Publishing Plugin
Movie Maker on the other hand has a slightly larger list of new things:
- Audio Narration
- Audio Waveforms
- Audio Ducking and Emphasis
- Music Store download integration
- Deferred Encode Proxy and Disable Transcoding Options
- MPEG-4/H.264 Encoding (MP4)
- Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Correction (Windows 8 Only)
- Outlined Text
- Videos As Audio
- Vimeo Publishing Plugin
- Project Auto-Save
Photo Gallery and Movie Maker aside, this announcement also packed some bad news for fans of Live Mesh. When those colossal SkyDrive announcements were made recently, we pretty much knew that the end of the road was near for Mesh. It's pretty much official now. If you install the Windows Essentials 2012 suite and have Live Mesh installed, it will automatically be removed and replaced with the desktop SkyDrive client.
Provided that you never update, you can technically continue using Live Mesh. But you'll be stuck in 2011.


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Some genius from the intertubes has invented a recipe for bacon milkshake!!! Me and friend Winni made some yesterday and it is tasty meaty goodness. Here are some action shots to go along with the recipe. First step: fry the bacon! Bacon is the most important ingredient. We used one whole pack. Put the ice […]
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I'm so excited about Eurovision this year. Not only will it be hosted in the glorious nation of Azerbaijan, but our entry will be veteran crooner Engelbert Humperdinck! This could only be improved by him singing his classic hit Lesbian Seagull. …oh wait, it just got better.
Just received a 32GB SanDisk microSD from Amazon for just twenty cash monies. Bargain! Stock up before someone notices. Still not as big as a coal lump though.


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With large numbers of military members transitioning to civilian life over the next few years, we know it's more important now than ever to make sure that transition is a successful one. Wells Fargo is proud to work alongside Soldiers to Summits to help empower veterans to transition to a successful civilian life. Soldiers to Summits helps veterans shatter the barriers in their lives. We are excited to give our Wells Fargo team members and customers an opportunity to Walk with the Soldiers and help ensure that our wounded veterans aren't walking their journey alone. We are proud of the progress we've made towards our commitment of helping veterans, military members and their families with sustainable housing, career transition and financial education, but we know there is still a lot of work to do. We plan to be there every step of the way.


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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Dosecast: mobile app for tracking medications
Mobile medical app Dosecast can help patients track their medications better, which may help cut healthcare costs in the long run.
Library Catalog upgrade, May 26 – June 2
Due to upgrading software, the Library Catalog (USEARCH) may be temporarily unavailable May 26 – June 2, 2011. As an alternative, use WorldCat to find items in libraries near you. Please contact us with questions or concerns.
TOXNET and Beyond
The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library is hosting TOXNET and Beyond: Using the National Library of Medicine's Environmental and Toxicology Portal webinar on Wednesday, June 1 and Friday, June 3. Stephanie Publicker, from Specialized Information Services, will present these two sessions via Adobe Connect. Please join us in the Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, …Read More »
Memorial service for Priscilla Mayden
A service honoring Priscilla's memory will be held on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 5:30 pm at First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, 569 S 1300 E, Salt Lake City, UT. An obituary for Ms. Mayden was recently posted on the Salt Lake Tribune website. As noted in an earlier blog post, Priscilla Mayden …Read More »
New mobile app from Johns Hopkins
As noted in the iMedicalApps blog: Statistics from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet (link here) show that the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. is 8.3% or 25.8 million people. In 2007, the total cost of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. alone reached $174 billion. It is clear that diabetes is a major healthcare …Read More »
Concert and congestion
Notifying our patrons of expected congestion resulting from the U2 concert on campus next Tuesday, 5/24/11.
Eccles Library's winning video
As posted earlier, the U.S. National Library of Medicine sponsored a video contest to help promote awareness of the excellent resources it offers by creating "original short videos which promote awareness of these products and services." A team from Eccles Library created a 50-second video promoting MedlinePlus, and succeeded in winning the grand prize! Congratulations …Read More »
Library of Congress launches National Jukebox
This week the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) launched its National Jukebox website, and it is a refreshingly simple, thoughtful design. The home page offers a music player and sample list of songs; with one click the visitor can be listening to music from a century ago. Visitors can browse all songs, or by genre …Read More »
Downside of Google and books
Thoughts on one author's attempt to make his book freely available on Google Books.
Priscilla Mayden: visionary librarian
Priscilla M. Mayden, who served as the first Director of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, passed away this month at the age of 93. Joan Stoddart, Deputy Director of the Eccles Library, wrote a thoughtful summary of Ms. Mayden's life and contributions to the library profession: Priscilla Maltby Mayden was born in 1918 …Read More »


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Cougars Secure Sole Possession of AMC Regular Season Title
COLUMBIA -- The top-ranked Cougar men's basketball team clinched the American Midwest Conference regular season championship on Saturday afternoon with a 73-58 victory over visiting Lyon College. Columbia remains the NAIA's only undefeated team of the season with the win, improving to 28-0 overall and 14-0 in league play.
The Cougars used a 15-2 run midway through the first period on their way to a 37-18 lead at the halftime break. Columbia shot 47 percent, including four of eight from behind the three-point line, in the opening frame. Derrick Dilworth and Devin Griffin each had nine points in the first 20 minutes to lead the Cougars at the break.
Columbia led by as much as 25 in the second half and held a double-digit advantage throughout the final period as they cruised to their 17th home victory of the year. The Cougars finished the game 29 of 58 from the field (50 percent) and connected on 9 of 16 attempts (56 percent) from beyond the three-point arc.
Jordan Dressler led three Columbia players in double figures with 16 points. Zach Rockers and Derrick Dilworth finished with 12 and 11 points, respectively. Griffin and freshman Chantel Stanciel each handed out four of the Cougars' 18 assists, while senior Marquette Murrell pulled down a game-high eight rebounds.
The Scots were led by Kendall Leeks with 16 points.
Columbia returns to the court on Thursday, February 21st for a matchup with Harris-Stowe State University in their final regular season home game. The Cougars defeated the Hornets 93-49 in the teams' first meeting of the year on January 24th. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Arena of Southwell Complex. Dressler, Murrell, and fellow seniors Ben Bowman and Hal Payne will be recognized prior to tip-off as part of Senior Night.


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Since the 1990's UT System libraries have worked through the UT System Digital Library (UTSDL) to increase the buying power of individual UT System libraries. The UTSDL is an active library consortium of the UT System's nine academic and six health science institutions. The consortium complements the collection strengths of each UT institution's library with online scholarly resources. UTSDL provides access to resources ranging from humanities ebooks to medical research journals. The UTSDL provides licensing services for electronic products and leverages group purchasing power in order to reduce costs across the UT System. In fiscal year 2014, the UT Health Science Center Library as part of the UTSDL consortium spent $1,134,898 for subscriptions to electronic journals and databases resulting in cost avoidance estimated at $8,964,211 based on vendor list prices. Journals published by Nature, Science, American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and many others are included in the UTSDL consortium subscriptions. The UTSDL is managed by librarians at UT Austin along with collection development librarians at each UT System campus.
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Ascham School
The subtle art of the nip/tuck as practised by cosmetic surgeons – stitching and tension to enhance beauty:
1 Breasts
2 Complexion
3 Figure
4 Cup size
5 Infertility
6 Wobbliness
7 Droopiness
8 Nose
9 Labia
10 Wrinkles
11 Cheeks
12 Thighs
13 Lips
14 Measurements
15 Fat
16 Teeth
17 Dry skin
18 Waistline
19 Pubis
20 Weight
21 Eyelids
22 Bloat
23 Freckles
24 Ears
25 Menstruation
26 Cellulite
27 Eyes
28 Nails
29 Varicose veins
Consider the name each artist has chosen for their artwork. In what way does the title reference the object as well as the artist's desire to respond to their world? Discuss how a title can influence the way an audience views an artwork.
Discuss the similarities and differences between Killing time and The nature of vanity, referring, in particular, to the use of materials and its relationship to the subject matter. In what ways can these artworks be defined as 'contemporary'?
Research Killing time and discuss how Swallow uses the visual language of the past for his 'self-portrait'. Comment on the subjectiveness and importance of personal memories. Can they be reliable?


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Just received a copy I bought on Ebay- I won the auction for 99$ and it was $3.00 shipping. There's a bunch of dvds there.
Quote from: natsgarden123 on September 17, 2013, 03:00:02 PMJust received a copy I bought on Ebay- I won the auction for 99$ and it was $3.00 shipping. There's a bunch of dvds there.Why so much? Am I misunderstanding something?
I bought this on Amazon Prime last night. It was pretty awesome! And I was laughing at the intro where the guys were saying, "Before long it became an obsession, and uh, I was no longer a normal person" and, "it blossomed into a full time case of insanity." -- I definitely found my hook fruits overseas. murahilin, I was trying to figure out who you were.
That's pretty cool! I've worked on a few films, but no documentaries.
hehe! cookie monster has netflix. gonna watch this baby tonight!
Do we know if the Netflix version is even different from/longer than the DVD version? I would doubt it, but...
Viewed it last night with the Fam ! it was awesome ! ...I rated it 5 stars , it was only rated 3 stars when I found it on NETFLIX .Ed..


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Maryland watermen find booming oyster harvest
CHANCE, Md. (AP) — Maryland watermen are hauling in oysters at a pace not seen since before a wave of disease outbreaks in the mid-1980s devastated the fishery.
"We've probably got more oysters here than we've had in the last 20 years," said Greg Price, a waterman based in this small fishing village near Deal Island in Somerset County. "It's a bumper crop for what we've been having."
One sign of the shucking-good times: Maryland Department of Natural Resources offices are struggling to keep up with demand for the tags that must be affixed to each bushel of oysters.
"It's actually created a situation now where we're running out of oyster tags," said Mike Naylor, head of DNR's shellfish program. "We've just never been in this situation where we're in December and we still have demand for tags."
Despite the ensuing rationing, the agency has distributed 200,000 tags since the season began Oct. 1 compared with 135,000 all of last season, Naylor said. The season doesn't end until March 31.
The agency is still tabulating the results of the first month of the season, but the industry appears to be on track to double or triple last year's harvest of 135,000 bushels, Naylor added.
For his part, Casey Todd, who has worked at his family's Crisfield oyster market since 1978, said the last four years have seen improvement every year, but "this year has been a lot better. I haven't seen this many oysters in my lifetime."
But in the fragile oystering industry, a boon for many is a bust for all.
Lured by the promise of an easy catch, scores of working watermen are forgoing crabs and striped bass and focusing all their efforts on oysters. Even those with day jobs are burning vacation time to get in on the action, Naylor said.
As a result, the number of fishermen engaged in tonging and dredging oysters in Maryland's water this season has bolted from the usual 500 to about 800. And seaside markets are getting flooded with oysters, driving prices down from last year's average of about $35 a bushel to $22, Naylor said.
"They're catching more oysters, but they're getting less for them because the market is just saturated with them. That's just a shame because there's money being left on the table," he said.
Watermen routinely raked in at least 1 million bushels of oysters until the mid-1980s, when a pair of parasitic diseases known as MSX and Dermo sharply reduced that annual harvest.
In recent years, though, oysters have survived the diseases in greater numbers. An annual state survey of selected oyster bars last year found a 92 percent survival rate, the highest level since 1985.
Scientists aren't sure what's driving the comeback, Naylor said. The past couple years of relatively dry weather ensure higher saltwater content in the Chesapeake Bay and better growing conditions for oysters. But those conditions also typically fuel parasitic growth as well.
Don't chalk up the bonanza to cleaner water, Naylor cautioned. If that were the case, the gigantic harvests of the 1960s and 1970s, when the Chesapeake was the mid-Atlantic's sewer, wouldn't have existed.
What is known: Higher survival leads to more oysters reaching adulthood, which means greater reproduction and bigger harvests.
And for Price, who has been chasing the elusive oyster for 45 years, it paradoxically means a hard way to make a living just got harder.
"I think we're victims of the abundance of oysters this year," said Price, 65. "Last year, oysters held on to $30 (a bushel) the whole year, but that's not going to happen this year."
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With more children using the social media, all parents need to keep an eye on how their own children are using their computer and their phone.
A father in Texas is trying to make that job a little easier with a tool that monitors any child's social media.
"My immediate reaction was one of amazement, disgust," said Mitch Butler, co-founder of Image Vision.
His journey started one day when he saw his 13 year old daughter's cell phone ringing. He saw something he really did not like.
"It was a group text from a boy at school that had an inappropriate text and image," said Butler.
The image inspired him to create something called the Eye Guardian App. "It initially started as an anti-sexting effort," said Mitch.
From phones to Facebook, Eye Guardian lets parents connect to their child's social networking accounts. It filters images of nudity, inappropriate texts, even suspicious " friends" and then e-mails a report to mom and dad each day.
"We look at the images and messages and friends- here are images that might be suspect, here is text that may have curse words," said Butler.
Even if you trust your children to be on their best behavior, you need to be wary of people who can reach out to them, with less than honorable intentions.
"Really the goal is to provide parents a tool to help their kids be safer on Facebook", said Mitch Butler, co-founder of Image Vision.
Right now, the app is still in the beta testing and you can sign up for free. To learn more go to the Eye Guardian website: www.eyeguardian.com